Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the geometry of geodesics.
- adjective Of or relating to geodesy.
- adjective Having a structure consisting of lightweight rods or poles joined so as to form interlocking polygons whose vertices lie on an imaginary sphere.
- noun The shortest path between two points on any mathematically defined surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
geodetic - noun A geodesic line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Math.) Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic.
- adjective (Architecture) Made of lightweight structural supporting elements connected in a manner to provide great rigidity; -- of structures.
- noun A geodetic line or curve.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics the
shortest line between two points on aspecific surface - adjective of or relating to
geodesy - adjective of or relating to a
geodesic dome
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or determined by geodesy
- noun (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ventura Puente and Camelinas (the southern periferico) sit the Convention Center, Planetarium, Teatro Morelos, and the Orquidario --- twin geodesic domes house an outstanding orchid collection.
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Ventura Puente and Camelinas (the southern periferico) sit the Convention Center, Planetarium, Teatro Morelos, and the Orquidario --- twin geodesic domes house an outstanding orchid collection.
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Also, the precise mathematical form Poincaré chose had to make the Poincaré-line that joins any two points the shortest path between them called a geodesic, just as the usual line is the shortest path between points in Euclidean space.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Also, the precise mathematical form Poincaré chose had to make the Poincaré-line that joins any two points the shortest path between them called a geodesic, just as the usual line is the shortest path between points in Euclidean space.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Also, the precise mathematical form Poincaré chose had to make the Poincaré-line that joins any two points the shortest path between them called a geodesic, just as the usual line is the shortest path between points in Euclidean space.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Great circle path truest shortest, aka geodesic bulges towards southeast.
The Myth of the strategic location of the Taiwan Strait Sun Bin 2005
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A geodesic is the shortest path between two points.
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The equation of motion is then the so-called geodesic equation, the shortest curve in an arbitrary background, which is not usually - as in flat space, e.g. a lawn - just a straight line:
Backreaction Bee 2008
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Gravitons are not a relativity claim, it is an attempt to make gravity into a gauge field theory like electromagnetism and nuclear forces, which use bosons to mediate interactions between particles (and there's no evidence for it) ... general relativity explains gravity as particles following a "geodesic" in the warped geometry of space-time
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Gravitons are not a relativity claim, it is an attempt to make gravity into a gauge field theory like electromagnetism and nuclear forces, which use bosons to mediate interactions between particles (and there's no evidence for it) ... general relativity explains gravity as particles following a "geodesic" in the warped geometry of space-time
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as in geodesic dome
August 29, 2008